Space for Climate Action Trainings

Source: United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs Following the 2023 UN/Austria Symposium on the theme of "Space for climate action: space applications and technologies supporting sustainability on Earth", UNOOSA is partnering with the Canadian Space Agency (CSA), the European Centre for Medium-...

New Farmed Seaweed Markets Could Reach $11.8 Billion by 2030

Source: The World Bank A new World Bank report estimates that ten emerging global seaweed markets have a potential growth of up to $11.8 billion by 2030. This monetary value comes with seaweed's ability to sink carbon, sustain marine biodiversity, employ women, and unlock value chains. The Global Se...

Extremely Severe Cyclonic Storm Mocha, May 2023, Myanmar: Global Rapid Post-Disaster Damage Estimation (GRADE) Report (June 29, 2023)

Source: reliefweb Given the fragile and conflict-affected situation with limited access in Myanmar, the World Bank has adopted the Global Rapid Post-Disaster Damage Estimation (GRADE) methodology to estimate damages arising from Cyclone Mocha. GRADE is a remote, desktop analysis to estimate damage t...

ရေရှားပါးမှုနှင့် ပတ်သက်သည့် စိတ်ဝင်စားဖွယ် အချက်(၁၀)ချက်

သန့်ရှင်းသော ရေရှိမှုသည် အထူးအခွင့်အရေး ရယူခြင်းတစ်ခု မဟုတ်ပေ။ ၎င်းသည် မဖြစ်မနေလိုအပ်ချက်တစ်ခုဖြစ်ပါသည်။ ကျွန်တော်တို့ကမ္ဘာကြီး၏ အစိတ်အပိုင်း တော်တော်များများကို ရေထုဖြင့် လွှမ်းခြုံထားသော်လည်း ထိုရေအများစုမှာ လူသားများ သောက်သုံးရန်အတွက် မသင့်တော်ပေ။ World Widlife Federation ၏ အဆိုအရ ကမ္ဘာ့ရေထု၏ ၃ရာ...

Water Planning And Engineering

Water is an important contributor to a sustainable and resilient sector. Water planning is an evolving and collaborative process that actively involves multiple stakeholders from different sectors. It aims to allocate rights to water for consumption purposes, water provision to the environment and p...

Google Takes on Flooding with Satellites, Machine Learning

Source: stormwater.wef.orgLeveraging the technology behind its existing suite of satellite imagery products and its expertise in artificial intelligence, search-engine giant Google (Mountain View, California) is pursuing new ways to help people protect life and property in the event of major floods....

Water Filtration Systems for Developing Countries

Source: healingwaters.org - By: deborah.bense What is Ultrafiltration and Reverse Osmosis? Ultrafiltration and reverse osmosis are two ways to treat water. These processes remove dangerous contaminants, making the water safe to drink. Water treatment technologies like ultrafiltration and revers...

Deionized Water: The Benefits and Risks

Source: sprinewellwater.comWater comes in different types – tap water, purified water, filtered water and alkaline water, to name a few. While many are safe to drink, they're usually unfit for applications that use water as a rinse, ingredient, or solvent (think the food, cosmetic, and medical indus...

Report: The essential drop to reach Net-Zero: Unpacking Freshwater's Role in Climate Change Mitigation

Source: Stockholm UniversityNew research presented at COP27 shows that water is much more important in mitigating climate change than previously believed. Better management of water is critical to tackling today's food and energy crises, both of which are exacerbated by climate change.The repor...

Science to Policy: from Earth Observation to legislation

Source: International Water AssociationTYPE: WebinarDURATION: 1:30 hoursSTART DATE: 18 Nov 2022START TIME: 14:00 (London time)LANGUAGE: EnglishFORMAT: Presentations, panel discussion session.CERTIFICATION: N/A Target Audience Practitioners, academics and researchers, utilities, students, e...

Space4Youth Essay Competition

Source: UNOOSA.ORG - Space as a tool to accelerate change in sustainable water resources management, hydrology and the protection of aquatic ecosystemsThe United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA), in collaboration with the Space Generation Advisory Council (SGAC), launched the 202...

Water for 1.5 — the climate benefits of good water management

Source: The Australian Water Partnership - By: By Tony Slatyer, Water Policy GroupLimiting global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius over pre-industrial levels, as agreed to be pursued under the Paris Agreement, requires everyone to act much more quickly. Good work is already being done by wat...

10 Interesting Facts About Water Scarcity

Source: Healing Waters InternationalClean and fresh water isn't a privilege—it's a necessity. Although water covers a large portion of our planet, most of that water isn't fit for human consumption. According to the World Wildlife Federation, only three percent of all earth's water comes from freshw...

UNESCO finds that some iconic World Heritage glaciers will disappear by 2050

Source: The Ocean Decade - New UNESCO data highlight the accelerated melting of glaciers in World Heritage sites, with glaciers in a third of sites set to disappear by 2050. But it is still possible to save the other two thirds, if the rise in global temperatures does not exceed 1.5°C compared ...

Rethinking mountain water security

Source: University of Birmingham - Water security in mountain regions relies on an understanding of the interlinks of water supply and demand that goes far beyond the study of glacier melt. Current information on how the communities which depend on water from mountain snow and ice will be affec...

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